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<blockquote data-quote="Henry@home" data-source="post: 119955" data-attributes="member: 159">This has to go in a &quot;to each his own&quot; category, because the books were quite enjoyable to me. I, like others can identify parts that were somewhat Tolkien-derived (such as the muscial and literary influences and the elves), but then, what classic fantasy literature today isn't?If one thought the romances in Dragonlance were childish, then the LotR romances must have been childish as well, because pasage for passage, they were cut from the same cloth, although the women in Dragonlance were more than carboard background cutouts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They fought both with and FOR their men, and one woman (Laurana) went through amazing dramatic growth during the three Chronicles novels. One should really read carefully through Laurana's changes, to realize their depth and profundity, before marking it off as &quot;dumbed down and childish.There really is more there than one realizes. I highly encourage everyone to read it in its entirity, because there are just as much passion, depth, fun, fear and thrills there as was in Tolkien or Martin.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry@home, post: 119955, member: 159"] This has to go in a "to each his own" category, because the books were quite enjoyable to me. I, like others can identify parts that were somewhat Tolkien-derived (such as the muscial and literary influences and the elves), but then, what classic fantasy literature today isn't? If one thought the romances in Dragonlance were childish, then the LotR romances must have been childish as well, because pasage for passage, they were cut from the same cloth, although the women in Dragonlance were more than carboard background cutouts. :) They fought both with and FOR their men, and one woman (Laurana) went through amazing dramatic growth during the three Chronicles novels. One should really read carefully through Laurana's changes, to realize their depth and profundity, before marking it off as "dumbed down and childish. There really is more there than one realizes. I highly encourage everyone to read it in its entirity, because there are just as much passion, depth, fun, fear and thrills there as was in Tolkien or Martin. [/QUOTE]

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